East Norriton Middle School students offer helping hands to Norristown Salvation Army

East Norriton Middle School students package up food collected by the student body to donate to the Annual Lt. Patty Simons Law Enforcement Food Drive Dec. 4, 2012. Photo by Gene Walsh/Times Herald Staff

EAST NORRITON — Students in the 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th grade homerooms competed to see who could collect the most non-persishable food items. 1300 items were collected with Jen Howell’s class winning a popcorn and movie award.

Teachers Tammy Lerro and Jen Howell sponsored the event and East Norriton police officers David McDermott and Carl Fischer transported the food to the PAL Center in Norristown for distribution to the Norristown Salvation Army later this month.